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A recently catalogued collection of 37 handwritten diaries belonging to the composer Sir Granville Ransome Bantock shed insight into his life and music. Those written between 1928 and 1946 are the focus of this blog. Past posts cover the years 1911 – 1919 and 1920 – 1927.   In the later part of his life,...

A recently catalogued collection of 37 handwritten diaries belonging to the composer Sir Granville Ransome Bantock shed insight into his life and music. Those written between 1920 and 1927 are the focus of this blog. Past and future posts cover the years 1911 – 1919 and 1928 – 1946.   Musically, the 1920s represent Granville...

A recently catalogued collection of 37 handwritten diaries belonging to the composer Sir Granville Ransome Bantock, shed insight into his life and music. Those written between 1911 and 1919 are the focus of this blog. Future posts will cover the years 1920 – 1927 and 1928 – 1946, respectively. Though they might at first appear...

The pages of history are filled with the achievements of men and less so women. In no period is this more evident than the late 18th and early 19th centuries, where gender roles were sharply defined and the Victorian notion of seperate spheres for men and women prevailed. Born in Pancras, London on 21st November...